Dcell: a scalable and fault-tolerant network structure for data centers

By Chuanxiong Guo, Haitao Wu, Kun Tan, Lei Shi, Yongguang Zhang, Songwu Lu. Conference on Applications, Technologies, Architectures, and Protocols for Computer Communication, 2008

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Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications

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BCube: a high performance, server-centric network architecture for modular data centers (2009, methodology): “The BCube packet header is similar to that of DCell [9].”
Improving the Scalability of Data Center Networks with Traffic-aware Virtual Machine Placement (2010, background): “This raises a number of concerns with respect to the scalability o f the underlying network architecture, an issue that has attr acted significant attention recently [1][2][3][4][5][6][7].”
Better never than late: meeting deadlines in datacenter networks (2011, methodology): “For topologies with multiple paths between endhosts [13] [1,2,15], D(3) relies on ECMP, VLB and other existing mechanisms used with TCP to ensure that a given flow follows a”
VL2: a scalable and flexible data center network (2009, background): “1, 12, 13 VL2 also leverages the programmability of servers; however, it uses servers only to control the way traffic is routed as switch ASICs forward packets at less cost in power and dollars per Mbps. valiant load balancing : Valiant introduced VLB as a randomized scheme for communication among…”
DENS: data center energy-efficient network-aware scheduling (2010, background): “Fat-tree successors are constantly proposed for large-scale data centers [15, 16].”
Hedera: Dynamic Flow Scheduling for Data Center Networks (2010, background): “DCell [19] and BCube [18] suggest using recursivelydefined topologies for data center networks, which involves multi-NIC servers and can lead to oversubscribed links with deeper levels.”
Cloud computing: state-of-the-art and research challenges (2010, background): “[22, 23] proposed server-centric, recursively defined network structures of MDC.”
ElasticTree: Saving Energy in Data Center Networks (2010, methodology): “As services scale beyond ten thousand servers, inflexibility and insufficient bisection bandwidth have prompted researchers to explore alternatives to the traditional 2N tree topology (shown in Figure 1(a)) [1] with designs such as VL2 [10], PortLand [24], DCell [16], and BCube [15].”
DeTail: reducing the flow completion time tail in datacenter networks (2012, background): “Modern datacenter networks have scaled out, creating many p aths between every source and destination [9, 23, 24].”
GreenCloud: a packet-level simulator of energy-aware cloud computing data centers (2010, methodology): “For example, such architectures as DCell [35] or BCube [22] implement server centric approach relying on mini-switches for interconnection.”
SecondNet: a data center network virtualization architecture with bandwidth guarantees (2010, methodology): “For example, both DCell [12] and BCube [13] introduce their own addressing schemes, and PortLand [16] overrides the MAC address to encode their fat-tree topology information.”
Jupiter Rising: A Decade of Clos Topologies and Centralized Control in Google's Datacenter Network (2015, background): “Recent work on alternate network topologies such as HyperX [1], Dcell [17], BCube [16] and Jellyﬁsh [22] deliver more eﬃcient bandwidth for uniform random communication patterns.”